Nature has no Laws — only habits.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

In the stillness of headstones, Darkness is my blanket.And forever is my song.In the arms if stone angels, I'm not afraid.Because finally and completely, I belong.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

I believe humans were born to have joy and to have it more abundantly that the birthright of everyone is loving caring sharing and abundance.

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.